The Great Loop
This web site is an attempt to provide a quick and easy way for our family and freinds to keep up with us on "The Loop"
The Great Loop is a 6000 mile jouney down the Tennessee River and the Tombigbee Waterway to Mobile, Alabama. From there around the coast of Florida via Key West with a side trip to the Bahamas. Back to the coast of Florida we head up the east coast to the Chesapeake Bay. From the Chesapeake we continue up the east coast through New York Harbour, up the Hudon River, and across the Erie Canal. Through a series of canals we go across Lake Ontario into Canada. We will spend a month in Canada. Back to the US, we will cross Lake Michigan to Chicago. Following the Illinois, Mississippi, Ohio, and Cumberland Rivers back to Tennesse.
LOOP CLOSED: 8/12/09: 310 days, 6170 miles, 107 locks, 3 countries, 16 states, 85 different marinas, 10,050 gallons of diesel fuel, thousands of photos, countless new friends, and priceless memories...
Departure Date
We have set our departure date for Saturday, October 18. Hopefully most of hurricane season will be behind us, although we will miss most of UT football (not all bad news). Lynn will go with me approximately 400 miles through 7 locks to Pickwick near Memphis. We will spend several days at a rendezvous with approximately 75 other boat doing the loop. This is a 3 day event at Joe Wheeler State Park in Alabama. David Jessup and Rick Strachan plan to join me at Pickwick for the 500 mile trip (12 locks) down the Tombigbee Waterway to the Gulf.
